Quotes About Heritage

I'm the type of guy that always respect the older rappers who paved the way for us to get here.

There are certain things that I wish people knew - certain things that I feel I started and certain things that I'm responsible for. Sometimes you wish people knew where a certain style of rapping came from or who was the first one to say whatever.

I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.

Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

Bengal has always produced good cinema, be it Satyajit Ray or Ritwik Ghatak.

I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.

The reality is that some Kapoors did reach the marquee; others did not.

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.

I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history.

My character in 'Shakuntala Devi' is based on a real person, her daughter Anupama Banerjee.

I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name because it's not my name. I don't know my name.

I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody actually knows what the narrative was.

I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.